Nov 18, 2024 Dr. D. Lance Waldie Romans 8:1 Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.Romans is written like a scene in a court of law where God (the Judge) enters the court and reveals His righteousness (1:17). Those on trial are the ungodly, and God’s wrath is rev...  Read More

Nov 14, 2024 Dr. D. Lance Waldie Romans 7:21-25 I find then the principle that in me evil is present—in me who wants to do good. 22 For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, 23 but I see a different law in my members, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a captive to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body...  Read More

Nov 13, 2024 Dr. D. Lance Waldie Romans 7:16-20 But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good. 17 So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. 19 For the good that I want, I do not do,...  Read More

Nov 12, 2024 Dr. D. Lance Waldie Romans 7:14 For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin. 15 For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.The depravity of man means that humanity is born as a slave to sin in the likeness of Adam (Rom. 5:12-21). Though alive physically, all are ...  Read More

Nov 11, 2024 Dr. D. Lance Waldie Romans 7:13-14 Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? May it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by effecting my death through that which is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful. 14 For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin.Paul pai...  Read More

Nov 8, 2024 Dr. D. Lance Waldie Romans 7:9-12 I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died. 10 This commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me; 11 for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. 12 So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and g...  Read More

Nov 7, 2024 Dr. D. Lance Waldie Romans 7:7-8 What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, “You shall not covet.” 8 But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead.Havi...  Read More

Nov 6, 2024 Dr. D. Lance Waldie Romans 7:6 But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.“But now” signifies a stark turn of events from the past to the present. Formerly, these Christians in Rome (indicative of Christians of all ages) were led by their flesh. Their fleshly desires ...  Read More

Nov 5, 2024 Dr. D. Lance Waldie Romans 7:4-5 Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. 5 For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for de...  Read More

Nov 4, 2024 Dr. D. Lance Waldie Romans 7:1-3 Or do you not know, brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives? 2 For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband. 3 So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to an...  Read More

Nov 1, 2024 Dr. D. Lance Waldie Romans 6:20-23 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death. 22 But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal lif...  Read More

Oct 31, 2024 Dr. D. Lance Waldie Romans 6:18-19 …and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. 19 I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification.In keeping wi...  Read More